Quotes
Quotes about Word
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes.
Oh that my words were now written! on that they were printed in a book!
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Keep your words sweetâyou may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
Words of love, are works of love.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
By words the mind is winged.
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
